The SCI Hunters’ Convention Features Exhibitors from Around the World
Safari Club International 12.11.13
The 42nd annual SCI Convention – the Ultimate Hunters’ Market will open with over 2,200 exhibit booths featuring top outdoor hunting goods and service specialists from around the world.
During the four days of the convention, attendees can view the latest in guns, optics, outdoor clothing and accessories. Renowned artists and taxidermists will display their incredible work and outfitters will have information on hunting and fishing adventures from all around the globe.
The 2014 Ultimate Hunters’ Market offers attendees not only the chance to see a vast array of products and adventures, but the opportunity to book trips and purchase the items that are displayed by the exhibitors. In addition, many trips and items will be for sale at day, evening and silent auctions during the Convention. If there is an outdoor adventure or product you are looking for, it will probably be available at the SCI Convention.
The 2014 Convention runs from February 5-8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pre-registration discounts are still available now but will be ending December 9, 2013.
For more information, to join or register, visit www.showsci.org or call 1-888-746-9724.
Protecting hunters’ rights and promoting wildlife conservation, SCI’s two areas of focus, historically has been the interest of hundreds of individuals long before SCI was established. But how did SCI as an organization begin?
Forty years ago, there were many safari clubs across the country made up of local, unaffiliated groups of hunters. One such was Safari Club of Los Angeles, which was formed in April 1971 by forty-seven individuals. In early 1972, an out-of-towner from a similar club in Chicago attended one of the monthly Wednesday night meetings, and it was decided that the L.A. club should attempt to combine with the one in Chicago to make it an affiliated chapter. The founder of Safari Club of Los Angeles, C.J. McElroy, went to the Windy City and instituted the new chapter.
Eleven months after the formation of Safari Club of Los Angeles, on March 9, 1972, the name was changed officially to Safari Club International. SCI continued to reach out to other independent safari clubs throughout the United States in an effort to combine them into a single overall organization.
Today, interest in SCI’s two primary missions has grown a worldwide network. Subsequent involvement and promotion of these missions is rooted in each of our 55,000 members, supported through each of our 190 membership chapters found across the globe, and put into action by government representatives and personnel both nationally and internationally.
In this way, we can encourage an appreciation for nature and wildlife so that conservation efforts remain strong, while also fighting to protect our rich hunting heritage. Big changes can be achieved through the endeavors of many who are united in a mission – the mission of Safari Club International.
